- Seeing the candidates I voted for actually winning
- Discovering that Mastodon is opening for Tool in Europe

In that order?

Sketch, do you know if they're doing this tour stateside?

That is a SICK lineup.

They are pretty even at the moment. I'm sure the first will win out over time. Still, if I had to pick any opener for the show later this month, it would be said ATL metalheads. EDIT: Dalen, I think the pairing is Europe only. You got a free place to crash if you can score a Wembley (11/27) ticket and get over here.

haha, thanks for the offer dude. i wish i knew about it sooner.

goodness....WEMBLEY.

the indoor arena not the stadium. Still riotously awesome. Tix went on sale back in August. Had a good friend not give me the heads-up, I would have totally missed it. Mastodon apparently announced their participation a month ago.

just awesome.

if Tool have the same stage setup they used at Coachella, you're in for a real treat.

some random person brought a massive box of timbits to work... to share.

mmmmmmm... fried dough covered in sugar.....

The half foot of snow coupled with freezing rain is not making my day because I actually have to go out. Other than that, I got no positives yet.

- Watching my pooch on his doggy day care's webcam.

- Seeing my favorite Society member this morning after a horrible Tuesday at work.

- Listening to the coworker who fucked me on the Bears tickets mercilessly hitting on the new girl and then listening to her shoot him down.

Blue sky in Scotland in November

Discovering a 'new' 18th century artist who's awesome - Gustave Dore.

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Witchcraft / Danava at mercury Lounge, NYC tonite.

Knowing that my diehard Republican father is slightly pissed off this morning. And that I can say now, "told you so".

Having my mother tell me she thinks Rumsfield is a creep.

A legalistic Baptist conservative Republican 78-year old stuck-in-1953 woman tells me this.

Rather than gloat or say I told you so, I just said, "yes, mom, you're right."

When MY MOM is saying Rumsfeld has to go, he REALLY has to go.

like whoooooooaww!!!!! WITCHCRAFT!

awesome man.

yeah, can't wait...

Danava is pretty cool as well. have you heard? i can upload for ya if ya need. same vein as WC

Solving a problem in excel that sorta can't be solved that way, I think. Nobody had tried it yet, I took it as a challenge, put 6 hours on it last night during elections, till 2. Came in this morning, and I think I got it. It's not linear, so Solver has a hard time with it, but I can't break the solution it came up with yet... can't better it.

One of those "a farmer has 120 acres, can grow wheat or corn, can buy wheat or corn too, or can sell what he grows. Can also raise pigs and chickens, which eat a certain amt of your corn, or a certain amt of your wheat, or any proper ratio btwn the two. So you have to allot his labor, his family's labor, he can hire labor, then the square footage and acreage constraints, and max profit without breaking any of the rules."

this one is easy!

just got an email from my parents with ticket confirmations: madison --> chicago --> amsterdam, saturday march 17th!

These 2 photos have kept the smiles going:

Is that weird Stepford kid on the left flipping off the camera? Now that's not very republican...

John Birch?

the real "melissa" coming to visit obner
that's wild shit

EDIT: and rummy quitting
dems kicking some ass

It's a beautifully sunny day here today and I have the whole day off to relax, read, and listen to music. For me, it doesn't get much better than that. I just got a huge batch of new music from lala and cemeterypolka's promised to send me some of her artwork for me to frame here in my house.

When the sun goes down I'm heading to the jacuzzi and no one can stop me.


For now, life is good.